Empower to deliver national retailer's payroll until 2011

February 2007
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A leading national retailer has deployed the Empower-HR solution to pay its 8000 employees in a deal that runs until mid-2011.

The five-year agreement has seen the retailer upgrade from Empower’s legacy Masterpay bureau to the Empower-HR online service. The company employs approximately 8000 employees at more than three dozen stores throughout Australia While the single largest Empower-HR user is the Tasmanian Government, with 33,000 employees, the national retailer stands out as the service’s largest private sector customer.

While the single largest Empower-HR user is the Tasmanian Government, with 33,000 employees, the national company stands out as the service’s largest private sector customer.

The company's five-year commitment to the Empower-HR solution is a major endorsement of the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of Empower’s online payroll service. The retailer, which had used Empower’s Masterpay payroll service since the 1980s, reviewed the market before negotiating the extended contract with Empower.

Empower Masterpay CEO Alan Greig said Empower-HR provided the national retailer with much more than just greater efficiency. “This customer recognised that advanced HR functionality, such as Employee Self-Service, offered major advantages over a traditional payroll bureau,” he said.

Empower-HR provides the retailer with the many advantages of an on-demand HR system including Employee Self-Service, Manager Self-Service, Training Recruitment, Performance Management and Occupational Health & Safety functionality.

Mr. Greig said Empower-HR was giving the customer easier access to more information. “The company has moved from a simple bureau system to a rich online service,” he said. “They get easy access to information in the system and gain the ability to perform transactions as they occur rather than having to store them up to the end of a pay period.

“Empower-HR is one of the few solutions in the market that is truly date-effective. They can enter a transaction on any day and set it to become effective on a chosen date. It can also handle retrospective changes, so the system is able to back calculate pays and entitlements.”

For more information about Empower-HR - HR & Payroll Solutions: Your Way - call Alan Greig on (08) 8332 6988 or email alan.greig@empower.com.au.

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